It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.
Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.
The highest and greatest goal that every soul has to reach is God. As everything needs renunciation, that highest goal needs the highest renunciation.
We can be under the power of a spell, but we must overcome such a power; we must liberate ourselves from evil. Everyone can fight.
Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness.
Therefore it is the law of the mystics to see all things, to experience all things, either of heaven or earth, and yet to say little; for the souls incapable of understanding the possibility of their reach will ridicule them.
Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man’s life.
Music should be healing. Music should uplift the soul. Music should inspire.
Love is the essence of all religion, mysticism, and philosophy, and for the one who has learned this, love fulfills the purpose of religion, ethics, and philosophy, and the lover is raised above all diversities of faiths and beliefs.
Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.
In this world of illusion, where at the end of the examination, we find everything to be of little importance, of little worth, if there is a sign of reality, of something one can depend upon, and in which one can recognize a sign of eternity, it is in the constancy of friendship.
All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.
The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.
A soul who is not close to nature is far away from what is called spirituality. In order to be spiritual one must communicate, and especially one must communicate with nature; one must feel nature.
By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves.
Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.
Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.
While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.
There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.
To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.
Whatever your life’s pursuit – art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be – you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.